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The head on sides with coarse, simple punctation; antennal middle and 

 next-last joints (5-10) about of equal breadth and hardly broader than long. 

 Pronotum more than twice as broad as lonj, the sides strongly rourded. pos- 

 terior margin broadly set off and somewhat turned upward, dorsum convex, with 

 two feebly depressed punctate rows at middle, and elsewhere with simple, 

 coarse punctation; elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, with rather strong 

 and dense, nearest hind corners scabrous punctation; abdomen smooth. L. 

 2.5-2.7 mm. 



In the ^ the fifth free dorsal Joint of abdomen with a transverse row 

 jf six granules, posterior margin of the sixth at middle with two triangular 

 teeth and at each side a longer inwardly curved tooth. 



Heretofore apparently not found in this country, but as it is not rare 

 in southern Sweden (Thoras,), it is not unlikejy that it might be encounter- 

 ed here, most likely in Bornholm. 



4 . 7. nana Payk . 



(?ayk. Faun. Suec. Ill, 408; Erichs. Kaf. f.^. Br. I, 367; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 184; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 357; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 2C6; Kuls. et Pey Er^vip. 

 1871, 47; 5anglb. Kaf. M. II, 301). 



A glistening, comparatively short and broad species with robust antennae, 

 further identifiable by the color and the sex-characters of the o . (Fig. 95). 



Head black, pronotum black or black-brown, its hind corners and posterior 

 \ margin, often also the sides brownish-red or yellow-red; elytra reddish-yel- 

 low, the outer hind corners pitch-black; abdomen yellow-red, its two-three 

 next-last joints pitch-black; antennae toward tip most often brownish yel- 

 low, elsewhere as the mouth-parts atKi legs yellow. 



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